HM Plant Honda's Ryuichi Kiyonari tried just about every setting under the sun to make his life less difficult at the Croft British Superbike round but none of them worked and he was forced to take a single point away from the weekend.

The three-time and reigning champion had a harder weekend in Yorkshire than he did last year but changes he made to his bike at Oulton Park, which transformed it into a race winner, couldn't do the same while team-mate Shane Byrne easily won the second leg.

"It has been a difficult weekend for me and I have been trying many different changes but we still were running the same lap times, but we have worked hard to try and fix the problem," he said.

"In the first race it was a decision on tyres and we thought it would rain more, so we went for wets but that was the wrong choice and I just couldn't push. In the second race I had to start so far down the grid because of race one and then it was hard work but we still made passes and moved forward. It is disappointing for me and the team."